The following is from “the secret archive,” published as “The Unknown Lenin” (1996), and the entry is dated March 1922: “It is precisely now and only now, when in the starving regions people are eating human flesh, and hundreds if not thousands of corpses are littering the roads, that we can (and therefore must) …” At this point the unversed reader might pause to wonder how the sentence will go forward.

That must be radical conspiracy talk by threatened opponents, right? Indeed, the entire experiment, both in theory and practice, is not a good idea, and it is high time that became the “consensus.” The soft socialism that people wish to be embraced by today is certainly not “real” socialism, nor of course in its extreme form ends up soft either.